Posted on 05/27/2022 6:37:27 PM PDT by marshmallow
Rome Newsroom, May 25, 2022 / 07:55 am Bishop Daniel Flores said on Wednesday that he was sick of hearing people say that “guns aren’t the problem” after a gunman killed at least 19 children and two teachers at a Texas elementary school.
“We sacralize death’s instruments and then are surprised that death uses them,” the bishop of Brownsville, Texas, wrote on Twitter on May 25, the day after the shooting.
“Don’t tell me that guns aren’t the problem, people are. I’m sick of hearing it. The darkness first takes our children who then kill our children, using the guns that are easier to obtain than aspirin,” Flores said.
It was one of many responses from Catholic bishops around the U.S. after an 18-year-old gunman opened fire at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, about 80 miles west of San Antonio. Among the victims were 10-year-old students in the fourth grade.
Cardinal Seán O’Malley of Boston was one of the bishops who took to social media to share his reaction to “the unthinkable loss of so many innocent young lives.”
“Our nation has too often become a place of unspeakable crimes of gun violence that have taken far too many lives, though none more heartbreaking than innocent children. We must take action to stop this senseless carnage,” O’Malley said.
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We’ll, guns aren’t the problem.
It’s the fault of the “godly” for failing the people.
Violent crazies and authoritarian leftists are the problem.
OK, we won’t. You’re too dumb to understand it anyway.
FU Bishop.
It’s not a gun problem. It’s a people problem.
COWARDLY COPS ARE THE PROBLEM
Bishop Flores is an empty-headed virtue-signaler who believes crime victims deserve to be crime victims and self-defense is a itself a crime.
Fact: Guns prevent an estimated 2.5 million crimes a year or 6,849 every day. Most often, the gun is never fired and no blood (including the criminal’s) is shed.
Source: http://www.gunfacts.info/pdfs/gun-facts/7.1/Gun-Facts-7.1-screen.pdf, page 21.
Stupid teachers that block doors open are the problem. Also stupid principals that allow safety protocols to be routinely violated as a matter of convenience.
False flags are the usual problem - because they are very effective, drawing in people from all sides of the manufactured political divide.
And forks are the reason for obesity, along with chopsticks for Chinese food.
Bishop Flores, when Cain killed Abel with a rock, God blamed Cain, not the rock.
Come down from your ivory tower your Excellency and minister to the kids from broken homes instead of counting your money in the Chandlery and spouting off about the politics of The Enemy.
Well, they are not because no gun picks itself up off the shelf and starts randomly shooting things up.
It takes people to operate them. THAT is the problem with guns.
Not legally, they aren't. And yet another stupid gun law won't change people who already buy guns illegally.
Hey,bishop....when a person is killed by a drunk driver do you blame the driver...or Ford/Honda/Toyota/VW/Hyundai?
Guns aren’t the problem, groomer.
Without guns, people will use bows and arrows.
Without bows and arrows, people will use knives.
Without knives, people will use rocks.
Without rocks, people will use sticks.
Without sticks, people will use their bare hands.
It’s not about the weapons used... it’s about the people who use them and how they are used.
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